Werner Forssmann
Born: August 29, 1904
Died: June 1, 1979 (aged 74)
Bio: Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann was a physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed for cardiac catheterization. In 1929, he put himself under local anesthesia and inserted a catheter into a vein of his arm.
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